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    The uncomfortable racial preferences revealed by online dating

    http://qz.com/149342/the-uncomfortab...online-dating/

    November 20, 2013




    The data shown above come from the Facebook dating app, Are You Interested (AYI), which works like this: Users in search of someone for a date or for sex flip through profiles of other users and, for each one, click either “yes” (I like what I see) or “skip” (show me the next profile). When the answer is “yes,” the other user is notified and has the opportunity to respond. It’s very similar to another dating app, Tinder.

    The graphic shows what percentage of people responded to a “yes,” based on the gender and ethnicity of both parties (the data are only for opposite-sex pairs of people). Unsurprisingly, most “yes’s” go unanswered, but there are patterns: For example, Asian women responded to white men who “yessed” them 7.8% of the time, more often than they responded to any other race. On the other hand, white men responded to black women 8.5% of the time—less often than for white, Latino, or Asian women. In general, men responded to women about three times as often as women responded to men.

    Unfortunately the data reveal winners and losers. All men except Asians preferred Asian women, while all except black women preferred white men. And both black men and black women got the lowest response rates for their respective genders.

    Perhaps most surprising is that among men, all racial groups preferred another race over their own.

    AYI analyzed some 2.4 million heterosexual interactions—meaning every time a user clicked either “yes” or “skip”—to come up with these statistics. Its users skew older than Tinder’s—about two-thirds of AYI users are older than 35, according to a spokesperson.



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    Perhaps most surprising is that among men, all racial groups preferred another race over their own.
    But muh racism and mysognism...
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    Lol at those abysmal response rates. Looks like all they had to do was press "yes" and not even write a reply message.

    As a young white guy making decent money in IT (in good shape, although short), I'm going to go out there and say there is no white privilege in online dating. Online dating is f****** cancer.

    About a handful of decent accounts to send messages to, if you disregard the 0 information they put on their profile. Usually about three sentences or so, one consisting of "I'm looking for someone real". After you stare at the profile for a couple minutes thinking "how the f*** do I write a reply that isn't generic to this s***", you come up with something that'll get a chuckle or hopefully generate some interest (ie - "Honestly, I'm real on Thursdays. That's the best I can do .) They read your message, look at your profile, don't reply.

    Rinse and repeat the above process ~20 times, get 0 responses. Unless you want to count that one chick who asked if you wanted to see her on cam. Yes, as in cam site.

    I like to think of online dating as a Venn diagram, there's everyone you want to date, and then there's everyone who is on online dating. Mutually exclusive, apparently. End rant. F*** online dating, for your own mental health find any other alternative.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 106459 View Post
    Lol at those abysmal response rates. Looks like all they had to do was press "yes" and not even write a reply message.

    As a young white guy making decent money in IT (in good shape, although short), I'm going to go out there and say there is no white privilege in online dating. Online dating is f****** cancer.

    About a handful of decent accounts to send messages to, if you disregard the 0 information they put on their profile. Usually about three sentences or so, one consisting of "I'm looking for someone real". After you stare at the profile for a couple minutes thinking "how the f*** do I write a reply that isn't generic to this s***", you come up with something that'll get a chuckle or hopefully generate some interest (ie - "Honestly, I'm real on Thursdays. That's the best I can do .) They read your message, look at your profile, don't reply.

    Rinse and repeat the above process ~20 times, get 0 responses. Unless you want to count that one chick who asked if you wanted to see her on cam. Yes, as in cam site.

    I like to think of online dating as a Venn diagram, there's everyone you want to date, and then there's everyone who is on online dating. Mutually exclusive, apparently. End rant. F*** online dating, for your own mental health find any other alternative.
    Girls mostly use tinder to $#@! alpha males, not so much for dating. If you ever watch a girl flip through tinder, she has hundreds of huge alpha male dudes to choose from, normal guys hardly even show up on the radar. Some of these guys $#@! 1-2 girls a week, regularly, and most have no desire for a longterm relationship. So a lot of these girls go from guy to guy to guy, like a carousel the attractive girls (top 20%) all $#@! the same top 5% of guys. The more average less attractive ones get the next 5-10% of guys, at least 80% or more of the guys are entirely left out of the process, and 80% of the girls get to $#@! all they want.

    Most guys who are responsible and would be good fathers get totally ignored in the process.
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    Tinder is no good, all the alpha males are on Grindr.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CPUd View Post
    Tinder is no good, all the alpha males are on Grindr.
    My friend tried out Grindr for a few weeks, he was getting way too many messages, dudes are really aggressive on there. I mean, gay guys are pretty aggressive in general... it would be like if all girls had the same raging sex drive as guys, people would just be $#@!ing everywhere. That's what it's like being gay, allegedly.
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    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    The uncomfortable racial preferences revealed by online dating
    Who's uncomfortable?

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    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    Who's uncomfortable?
    yeah, i dont get whats uncomfortable about it or why anybody should be. ??

    I will say, the Asian men -> Latino women thing is weird, I don't know if I've ever known or seen such an arrangement.
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    Quote Originally Posted by specsaregood View Post
    I will see the Asian men -> Latino women thing is weird, I don't know if I've ever known or seen such an arrangement.
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    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    Girls mostly use tinder to $#@! alpha males, not so much for dating. If you ever watch a girl flip through tinder, she has hundreds of huge alpha male dudes to choose from, normal guys hardly even show up on the radar. Some of these guys $#@! 1-2 girls a week, regularly, and most have no desire for a longterm relationship. So a lot of these girls go from guy to guy to guy, like a carousel the attractive girls (top 20%) all $#@! the same top 5% of guys. The more average less attractive ones get the next 5-10% of guys, at least 80% or more of the guys are entirely left out of the process, and 80% of the girls get to $#@! all they want.

    Most guys who are responsible and would be good fathers get totally ignored in the process.
    Hahaha, thanks for the reply Dannno. Unfortunately my experience was predominantly on OKCupid and POF (plenty of fish, ha). I learned pretty quick Tinder wasn't going to go anywhere for me .

    Some guy did some analysis on online dating ("I'm Too Short To Date...Statistically Speaking"), being 5'5 puts you at the minimum height requirement for 13% of chicks. Seems reasonable. Not that that has a whole lot of relevance in the grand scheme, I just think of it as a nice way to sum it up in a nutshell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by specsaregood View Post
    yeah, i dont get whats uncomfortable about it or why anybody should be. ??

    I will see the Asian men -> Latino women thing is weird, I don't know if I've ever known or seen such an arrangement.
    Anglos and latinas look the same to them?
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    Tinder is a hookup app, not a dating app. I'd be more interested in the data from OKCupid or PlentyOfFish. Regardless, though, this is actually in keeping with other data I've seen (with the exception of Asian men-Latina women thingm which is inexplicable).

    It's yet another problem with multi-racialism. Asian women are roundly desired, Asian men are not. No one likes black women, including many black men. It isn't fair to these groups. Modern culture and multiracial society creates artificial sexual market failures.
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